[192171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Frankenberger)
Fri Oct 21 21:07:55 2016
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 20:06:19 -0500
From: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:11:34PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote:
>
> Given the scale of these attacks, whether having two providers does any
> good may be a crap shoot.
>
> That is, what if the target happens to share the same providers you do?
> Given the whole asymmetry of resources that make this a problem in the
> first place, the attackers probably have the resources to take out multiple
> providers.
>
> Having multiple providers may reduce your chance of being collateral damage
> (and I'd also still worry more about the more mundane risks of a single
> provider, maintenance or upgrade gone bad, business risks, etc., than these
> sensational ones), but multiple providers likely won't save you if you are
> the actual target of the attack.
Good, perfect, enemy, etc.
How many sites were down today? How many were the intended target?
-- Brett
